State v. Spyke’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2021 · most notably Kelo v. City of New London (2005), State v. Betances (2003)
36 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Golding · Negron v. United States · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · United States v. District Court
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The issue is whether the prosecutor's argument ... reflected merely the prosecutor's personal opinion of the defendant's credibility. ... ' [E]ven though it is unprofessional ', a prosecutor can argue that a defendant is a 'liar' if such an argument is supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Austin
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.